off the street and slammed into side of a restaurant. the restaurant crown fried chicken was actually open at the time but no one else was injured. the driver of the car jumped out and took off into the night, and police are working to identify him and, yes, to track him down. what caused not clear, but other shopkeepers next door said the entire building shook. >> and a couple of seconds i had the building, you know, checking all the building. i check everything. i come out. outside. i see the car inside the lying down is crying, i don't know. >> reporter: and again, what caused the crash, why this happened still not clear at large this afternoon. the two bystanders who were

pedestrians are being treated here and are expected to recover. of course anybody with information might help the police track down the driver is urged to call the nelson mandela. the nypd we have learned 550 students and 100 faculty members are have been relocated to another school in queens. fumes were detected in an lek cartrol in the basement of psis295 around 9:00 this morning. con ed crews arrived quickly. officials believe the elevated levels were caused by a fire in a manhole. new at noon, police arrested one their own. a new york city police officer charged with exposing himself near a school. investigators say parents saw transit officer rain roach

they also say he was intoxicated. a manager at a bookstore on the upper west side was attacked in a possible case of anti-semitism. the manager says a man was pacing outside the store on broadway near 89th street. the man apparently walked inside, yelled that he was a muslim and made antijewish comments before punching the manager. the suspect rode off on a scooter. the manager's injuries were not serious. new at noon, a deadly stabbing overnight. clarks town police were called to the multifamily home in west nyack at 1:45 a.m. officers found a 66-year-old man with fatal stab wounds on the top floor. investigators are questioning a 19-year-old man who was at the scene. police have not made any arrests at this time. turning now to france where nearly 200 countries have come together for the u. n. climate

the fight on terror remains at the top of the agenda with president obama delivering a strong message this morning. >> good afternoon, shirleen, or terrorism president obama said he believes russia may change its strategy on keeping syrian president bashar al-assad in power. >> world leaders gathered in paris to fight a war on two fronts, climate change and terrorism. >> some have asked why the world would dedicate system of our focus to combating climate change even as we work to protect our people and go after terrorist networ s! philanthropists and government pledged an investment in energy. pope francis urged greater action saying we are at the limits, if i may use a strong word i would say we are at the

>> while world leaders were meeting in paris in beijing the smog was so thick, pollution 45 times beyond safe levels. the chinese president pledged chinese cooperation on climate and on the war on terror. that threat's palpable in paris still reeling from the terrorist attacks that killed 130 people two weeks ago. the fight against isis was as much a part of the discussion as the environment, president obama hinting at a possible diplomatic breakthrough with russia in regards to syria. >> reporter: and in meetings with world leaders including russia and turkey, the u.s. hopes a unified front may be developing to leave the world safer and cleaner for generations to come. live in washington, lana zak for channel 7 eyewitness news. thank you lana. new at noon, police searching for the ex-boyfriend of a

police found 28-year-old show shoshane rattigan shot in the head the police do not believe her young son witnessed the killing. police have not identified the ex-boyfriend. they say he was also in the house when rattigan was murdered and they want to question him at this time. a 20-year-old is facing an attempted murder charge for shooting and wounding a man inside a brooklyn apartment store. noel baes got into an argument in bushwick last month. things escalated and they say baez shot the man in the upper body. the victim is expected to survive. grab your rain gear. we are dodging rain showers all afternoon. meteorologist bill evans is here with our first look at the accuweather forecast. >> almost 2/10 of an inch of rain so far, and you see here on our live picture from our camera around 4 times square it's a rather gloomy gotham here at noontime, and more rain is on the way. we do have some mild temperatures at 50 degrees right now with these clouds and

you'll see on the radar a few more showers are coming up from the southwest. these showers are still continuing to run from the hudson river valley across fairfield county connecticut and long island. a bigger batch of heavier rain down from philly westward here is poised to come from the shenandoah valley and come right up to us. then we'll get a break tonight and then we'll watch the front that is back here and see how much rain that can bring us on wednesday. so so far we're looking at a couple tenths of an inch of rain. toms river about a half inch of rain. our futurecast is showing that batch of rain coming up this evening and tonight around 5, 6:00 this evening and on into the nighttime hours. then kind of overnight we kind of get a little break from the showers, but 7:00 we start back with showers again, and then here comes the front with heavier rain by about 4, 5:00, and that looks to kind of move through the area as we go through the evening. there will be some off and on showers you see off to our west.

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plane crashed into the ocean between indonesia and singapore last december. today indonesian investigators say the pilot mishandled a rutter control problem that happened on that plane nearly two dozen times in a year. >> it was a series of errors by the air crew that caused this mishap. there was a very minor computer problem for 3 or 4 minutes flopped around out of control before it hit the ocean. >> abc's aviation consultant says this incident raises concerns about other budget airlines in asia. mystery surrounds the sudden death of the newly elected leader of alaska's capital city. the body of juneau mayor steven greg fisk was discovered inside his home. the 70-year-old was found yesterday by his son. they also say there was no evidence of forced entry into the home. fisk was elected in october. an autopsy will determine his cause of death. a fellow republican presidential candidate calling out donald trump over his

new jersey governor chris christie now saying donald trump is wrong. trump staunchly defending his claim that thousands of muslims in jersey city were cheering when the towers came down. now new jersey's governor who first said he had no recollection of such an incident is now saying trump is off base on the facts. >> it's wrong. it's just wrong. it's factually wrong. everybody else can determine what they think is outrageous or not outrageous. >> he didn't say that the other day. he was very weak the other day. the other day he said it like well, he doesn't know. now i guess he feels a little bit emboldened. >> trump is telling supporters that the real war on him is about to start. he also says that he is considering skipping the next debate unless he's paid $5 million that he will donate to wounded warriors. more of hillary clinton's e- mails from her personal e-mail server are now public. the latest and largest batch of messages, 7800 pages was

that means more than of half of the democratic presidential candidates e-mails are now available. the e-mails are mostly from 2012 and 2013 and many span through her time as secretary of state. all of the e-mails are expected to be released next month. 60 years ago today, rosa parks stood up to racism by sitting down and in a move sparked a historic boycott in the deep south. on december 1st, 1965 ms. parks refused to give up her seat to a white passenger. her arrest triggered a boycott of the transit system that lasted 381 days. the protest propelled martin luther king and other civil rights icons into the spotlight. it also led to the desegregation of alabama's bus system. it's good to remember what importance she had to our time. >> absolutely. >> and coming up, breaking news and a major shakeup in the chicago police department. >> and why was a prominent lawyer not allowed to board a

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over the shooting of a black teenager by a white police officer. >> superintendent mccarthy and i began a discussion on sunday about the direction of the department and the undeniable fact that the public trust and the leadership of the department has been shaken and eroded. this morning i formally asked for his resignation. >> he's obviously trying to calm growing criticism about his administration's handling of police misconduct. mccarthy was the former -- we will have more on the decision and the outcry in chicago coming up in our next half hour. >> it is time for that accuweather forecast. a pretty gloomy gotham as you said earlier. exactly that. >> i tweeted a picture of that it too. you want to take a look at that gloomy gotham look. we have several of them. now. we take a look at noon.

camera in astoria looking south down the east river. to the right there is roosevelt island, way over to the right the fdr. we is can see a few little things here. got a little better visibility, you can see the empire state world trade. that's big alice, the power river. on the way. handy. we're looking at 50 degrees. the humidity's 83%. the wind is going to continue to be out of the east today. the pressure continues to fall as high pressure leaves, those rains coming up from the south. lows coming through the area the west. all that will team up to keep the barometer falling. nearly 2/10 of an inch of rain so far in the park. not likely we see much of a tomorrow. we are looking at steady rain for the evening commute and a lull or break tonight. more rain comes tomorrow. we clear out, it's a little cooler, chilly for thursday. we have a nice looking weekend coming up.

kingston there was a little freezing rain. 40 you see toward central sections here around sullivan and orange counties, 37 up towards monticello. a northeast wind to an east wind has been coming in at 8, 12, 16 miles an hour off the atlantic. that kind of keeps, you know, this contrast going between the upper levels and lower levels. keeps us cloudy and damp with light rain you see. heavier rain in harrisburg from philly westward here on into maryland. all this keeps sliding northeast. this evening for the evening commute lee goldberg will be there to have more on this. skies are clearing out around chicago. this is cooler drier air that will get in here on thursday and we'll start to see that shaping up to build into a nice weekend. sussex nearly a quarter of an inch, half inch toms river. those are the rainfall amounts so far. it's been mostly drizzle in the hudson river valley. this evening you'll see there's

coming across midnight, a batch of showers. we'll get a little lull in here. 7:00 tomorrow morning we start with the showers again. you'll need your rain gear and by afternoon and evening we're going to be seeing this batch of rain coming through. and then the colder air kind of starts to come in with the front. where it's cold enough there will be some snow showers wednesday night overnight, and then thursday we clear out. and we'll start to see sunshine building in and some cooler air pours in. rainfall on our futurecast and still showing about 8/10th more to the 210th we have. the afternoon the temperature will get to about, you know, 51, 52 degrees, start falling this evening into the 40s. so we're cloudy with occasional drizzle and rain and we're looking at about 52 for the rest of the afternoon. damp with a period of rain tonight. then we get a break with cloudy skies. then we've got periods of rain

it's even warmer, ahead of that front that wind goes southwest. you'll see that tomorrow we have periods of rain. some of that could be heavy. there's a tree lighting ceremony around rock center. that might have a shower or two during that or around that, before that, maybe even after that, and then we've got sunshine thursday and friday. look at that, weekend looks really nice. we should go to shirleen's have a barbecue. >> what? >> yeah, i'm in. >> did i say that out loud. >> you have great ideas bill. >> really! wow. >> you don't want to come over to my place. really nothing going on there. unless you want to cook. >> there you go. old man winter paid an early visit to minnesota. check this out. dumping 4 inches of snow cincinnati twin cities overnight. heavy snow moved into the area during the height of the evening commute. snarling traffic is a result. ice was the problem in kansas and oklahoma, frozen branches came crashing down taking power lines with them.

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an ice storm, just some of the stories caught on camera between police and two suspects on a downtown atlanta street that sent innocent bystanders running for cover. can you hear all the bullets flying. police say officers opened fire around 7:45 last night. they say the two suspects took off during a routine traffic stop that crashed into a shuttle bus and then a pole outside of a hotel. the driver was arrested but the passenger began shooting at police. he was shot and killed. police say at least three guns and a duffel bag filled with marijuana found inside the suspect's car. call it a big baa humbug for this guy in virginia. he's going around neighborhoods stealing christmas lights. this home surveillance video made public as an attempt to find the scrooge. and finally a sign of the times in oklahoma in the wake of an ice storm when the temperatures started to rise

look, someone took the picture of a speed limit sign. check out how the frozen image of the sign remains despite the warmup. it's like a ghostly reminder of how cold it got. this is just an example that mother nature is the best sculptor out there. >> i go back and harken to the guy who was taking the lights, the christmas lights, i just remember the pictures you showed me yesterday of the lights at your home. everybody go by david's house. nobody's stealing the lights off that house. >> it's a sight to behold. >> thank >> a religious vessel stolen from a church in new jersey has mysteriously reappeared. a gold and silver ornament worth $10,000 similar to this one was taken from st. thomas moore church in morris township two weeks ago. over the weekend it was returned to a closet where it

up to $300 takessen from the poor box is still missing. are americans self-gifting more than ever before. the national retail federation thinks so. it says nearly 60% of people are buying presents for themselves. the federation estimates americans will spend on average about 800 bucks on gifts this holiday season, about the same as last year. the amount people set aside for themselves has gone up to 130 bucks. >> as we continue at noon, a new warning popping up on some restaurant menus in new york city. plus they are some of

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is right for your loved one. you're watching new york's number 1 news, channel 7 eyewitness news at noon with david novarro, shirleen allicot, and meteorologist bill evans, now eyewitness news continues. >> our top stories this afternoon, a car smashes into a restaurant in queens injuring two people. the driver left the scene but left his car behind. down. >> a deadly stabbing in west nyack overnight. police found a 66-year-old man dead in his home. investigators are questioning a 19-year-old man who was at the scene. so far no arrests. and hello again, i'm david novarro. >> i'm shirleen allicot. we begin with a big change on the menu. starting today you will see the new --

on items that top the recommended daily limit of 2300- milligrams. eyewitnesses reporter lucy yang live in time square getting a little taste of what people think about all this. lucy. >> dave, it's the great salt shakedown, yes, it's lunchtime. folks are hungry and ready to order some lunch. before you do you that this new salt rule goes into effect today so diners can be forewarned. >> health officials recommend americans not consume more than 2300 milligrams of salt a day. but did you know some restaurants serve more than that in just one entree, and if you weren't aware of the high sodium content in some foods now you will be. >> sodium intake is too high among new york city adults. the high blood pressure drives both the leading causes of death and is the leading driver of health disparities. starting today a new rule goes into effect for chain

they will have to put a salt shaker symbol on those items which contain more than the recommended daily amount of sodium. this to give consumers more dietary information before they order. chains will have 90 days to update their menus before fines are levied. here at applebee's they believe in transparency and have already changed their menus. >> we're not the food police, and we're not telling them what to do, but i think it's important that we give them the opportunities to make the right decisions or wrong decisions if that's what they so choose. looks like. you can see the salt icons on particular items. of course too much salt can lead to high blood pressure, heart disease and stroke. and while doctors applaud this new measure, there are already rumblings for a potential lawsuit from the national salt producers organization. we're live in time square this

i'm lucy yang for channel 7 eyewitness news. >> thank you lucy. damming testimony from a former pennsylvania college paternity president against his frat brothers. his fellow student charged with murdering chun michael deng. he and four others tried to cover up deng's death in 2013. deng was repeatedly tackled. according to court documents, fraternity members waited an hour before deng was taken to the hospital even though he was unconscious. new york's former state assembly speaker plans to appeal his conviction on corruption charges. sheldon silver left manhattan federal court yesterday moments after he was found guilty in trial. the democrat free on bail as he awaits a sentencing date. he was convicted of fraud, money laundering and extortion. the 71-year-old could be sentenced to more than 100 years in prison.

automatically gives up his assembly seat. we want to return you now to the breaking news we told you about earlier. chicago's mayor firing the superintendent. abc's elizabeth hur joins us live with the breaking details. >> that's right, shirleen. the chicago mayor just made it in addition to creating a new task force he says that he asked the police superintendent to step down explaining he has become an issue and a distraction. >> the chicago police superintendent fired by mayor rahm emanuel. resignation. the superintendent gary's record at the chicago police department is a strong one and one that he can be proud of. >> the news coming just hours after the city's top cop told wasn't going anywhere. >> no, i'm not going to give up on this city. >> this, the first major shakeup following chicago

walking out of jail after posting $150,000 bond on murder charges. he said nothing but his attorney maintains the officer feared for his life when he opened fire. >> he's prepared to defend himself. he is very scared about the consequences that he's facing. >> van dyke is fighting first degree murder charges for the shooting death of 17-year-old laquan mcdonald. the incident captured in this dash cam video. van dyke accused of firing his weapon 16 times in 15 seconds. according to police anger over the shooting led to the arrest of 21-year-old jabari dean yesterday. authorities alleging he made threats online which shut down the university of chicago campus for the day. they say he posted on social male students. this is not a joke, 16 being mcdonald was shot. >> and again, the mayor says in order to change the culture and restore the public's confidence in the police system, the

and a new task force created this to conduct a top to bottom department. eyewitness news. shirleen and dave back to you. >> thank you for that. a man and woman are in the hospital after a wild shooting caught on camera in the bronx. just after 3 in the afternoon, the suspected gunman showdown westchester avenue pulling a mask up over his face. moments later gunfire erupted. people ran, and the man between cars and stuffed the gun into his pocket running along with the panicked crowd. >> i just saw people running, that's all i saw. and i discovered myself to protect myself. >> based on the video, the gunman may have had at least two friends who were with him on that day. the nypd says these guys have been skimming cash from atms in brooklyn and queens and police want your help finding them.

least 20 bank machines between april and june. police say they attached a device to an atm that reads the information from a bank card. then they made fake cards that allowed them to steal money from that victim's account. now. meteorologist bill evans, if you're one of the people out there lucky enough to have a bill evans umbrella today, this is a good day to have it. evening for the evening commute. way. there's going to to be more rain coming for tomorrow. we are going to be looking at temperatures this afternoon kind of around 50052 degrees. we drop into the 40s this evening. we'll get a break around midnight. after school today kiddos if you've got sports. it's going to be soggy. fields are going to be wet that sort of thing. sometimes that doesn't slow down certain after school sports. it's going to be rainy and drizzly not only today but tomorrow as well. you look at this graphic, you see no salt shakers on here at all. >> i don't want to see any salt

>> exactly. >> until that time comes. >> thanks a lot bill. >> he's a prominent well-known attorney in texas, so why was he not allowed to bard a flight

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he was trying to get on a plane at laguardia airport when he was stopped and told he made the flight crew uncomfortable. when he asked the gate agent why he says he was told he had cut off a member of the crew in a revolving door at the airport. that is why. >> at the beginning i thought it was just kind of a joke and i was on some reality tv show, but as the reality started to set in and people who were boarding the plane were staring at me i just really felt like i was out there on an island by myself. >> after the incident, american airlines reached out to al body an twitter and offered him a seat. an alert for parents, kids technology toy maker vtech has announced hackers have stolen the information of 5 million customers. that includes data on 200,000 children. the hong kong based company says the compromised information includes names and birthdays of child users and passwords and addresses of adults.

pictures of children and online chats. >> most of us repeat passwords on multiple different platforms. if you use that password for there, maybe you use the same for your nanny cam. realize that password has been compromised. change it right away. >> vtech claims the hacked information does not include credit card numbers. the company says it has contacted all affected users and temporarily suspended some of its website. >> one salvation army kettle got a lot more than a jingle from some coins. a couple gave a huge donation. listen to this number, $500,000. they did it with a check that they put in the kettle. a salvation army representative from minnesota says that the money donated near minneapolis is a state record. i think the last number that they heard was 25,000, so from 25, now they're looking at a $500,000 donation. amazing. >> i was waiting to hear if it

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seen samuel? abc7 and your tri-state ford dealers thank you for helping protect our children. >> one of the cats that shut down the b and q subway lines in brooklyn back in 2013 is back in the news. after living a life of leisure since that incident, arthur has run away again from his new home in prospect heights. the cat jumped out of a window left open by a sitter. the couple has been spreading flyers all over the city. they're asking anyone who may have seen arthur to please contact them on facebook. they're a hot gift this holiday season. now there's a new concern about hover boards. >> a family says their board caught fire and destroyed their home. eyewitness news anchor ken rosato has the story.

gifts this holiday season but could they pose a threat of fire. one louisiana family now alleging that their home was destroyed by a hover board gone up in flames. both wheels was like a fire work, i seen sparks flying and before i could yell the house is on fire the middle part of the board that would go in between your feet went poof. >> it was hard to put it out. it was pretty big, caught flames fast. >> the local authorities investigating the cause of the fire. this is not the first allegation of smoking hover boards. timothy of alabama posting this video to youtube saying three case after purchasing the board it went up in smoke. both were sold on amazon.com through vendors. abc news has reached out to their manufacturers for statements but have not heard back. fire isn't the only potential danger people have reported about these hot new items. the consumer product safety commission says it's received

hover boards in the last three months. social media sites are packed with hover board fails like this worker wiping out. teenager xavier terrell made a youtube video. >> i didn't think i'd get injured that badly. >> brandy giddiness told the ligaments in her left ankle trying to get off one of two family hover boards. >> it almost runs you over if you step off the front. that's like a really dangerous way to do it. >> ken rosato channel 7 eyewitness news. >> they really are popular. >> i don't want to kill your dreams but i don't think you should get on a hover board. >> they're illegal in the city but you can use them in parks apparently. better use a helmet and protection. >> we can't have you out for the count. >> you can get me one for christmas. >> can i? i was on one in sag harbor a couple weekends ago. >> did you fall?

>> you need to be in like one of those hallways that's really close and work your way up and down a hallway. you'd need a helmet and elbow pads for that thing if you're going out there, especially at my age. anyway, let's take a look outside. we'll show you what's going on. yeah, we have the cloudy skies. we've got a little drizzle, fog, and it's a gloomy gotham here at noontime as we look from our camera right around time square looking south. we can see a little bit of a shadowy gloomy, 1 world trade center all the way down into lower manhattan. cloudy skies, light rain, more rain is coming. 50 degrees, high humidity. east wind at 6. pressure's still falling. it was way up there. it continues to fall a little more every hour. north port and massapequa are at 50 degrees. and 53 toward queens. 50 around the park. 52 newark. these numbers are above our normal average afternoon high temperature which is right around 49. we've got a 9 to a 12 to a 16 miles an hour wind coming in

the rain is coming up from the south from the other direction and we'll have these showers and this batch of heavier rain getting into southern jersey. near cape may and burlington and over toward philly that will keep moving our way. we get a little break and the front back here. all this works its way through. 6:00 tonight we've got these showers around. and then you see midnight there's the next little batch. we get a few hours where we get a respite and the morning commute and then in the afternoon on our futurecast showing that heavy rain, or very heavy rain up here north and west is going to be going by. then the air at the end of that could be cold enough to create some snow up above i-84 here. it will be up toward albany. you've got to travel northward early on thursday you'll run into that cloudy, occasional rain and drizzle. 52 tonight. look at tomorrow, that wind goes southwest out ahead of that front and warms up to 57. your accuweather seven-day forecast, tomorrow evening, you

there will be some rain around that, maybe during that. have your rain gear. then we've got some much better weather, cooler on thursday. we get breaks of sun is and clouds. it's a little windy out of the northwest. the wind dies down thursday night, and friday will feel great. there's sunshine even on saturday, sunday, and even into monday. looking at a great weekend. for that barbecue at david's house. >> it's at your house now. >> it got moved did it? >> he wasn't going to get fed at my house. >> we've got it going back to bill's house. >> thanks bill. >> all right. >> new at noon, jerry seinfeld is returning to the upper west side west side. he will perform starting in january. he says he was inspired by billy joel's monthly concerts at madison square garden. >> i bought billy joel's house about 15 years ago, and i

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here's what we're working on later for eyewitness news. a battle over the statue of liberty, how new jersey and new york are both fighting to have lady liberty represent them. >> and do you have back pain, it could be what you eat. how some people found relief simply by changing their diet. we'll have those stories and much more beginning on eyewitness news first at 4. >> good stuff. it's time now for the feed. stories that got their start on social media and are getting shared and re-tweeted on social media. remember the man with terminal cancer whose one last request

he saw it and two days later he passed away. there is now another man with that last request. nathan ashley is a big fan of the film but he'll never be able to see it in the theaters and this is why. nathan has als, lou gehrig's disease and he has lost all ability to do the things he loves. he and his wife kathleen are behind a social media campaign to bring star wars the force awakens to their home. they're hoping they'll be able to get a copy from the movie maker and that is also disney our parent company. hopefully they can work that out. >> you wish them well but there's so many needy people out there that all want to have a chance. how do you decide something like that. this is the time of year when parents bring their children to the mall to meet santa and get a picture. one couple in indiana not only got one that will put a smile on their faces but one that countless others are treasuring now. at first the parents they wanted to wake up the boy.

but santa knew better and improvised like no, no, no, let me have this. the result another great christmas story. >> that is awesome. >> love the picture. he's like i'm taking a break with you kid. >> i love it. >> that's a good santa. finally a baby's face has gone truly viral. check this out. >> [ laughter ] that's not fooling around. >> isn't that awesome? >> kind of a mr. t., like don't mess with me fool. >> that's also what you talking about willis, right? >> cute. >> her name is amani, isn't that great. you are working on my last nerve. she's 1-year-old. she may already have a year as an actress. she's sweet though, she pops up, she smiles and she goes right back into that frown. she has over 1,000 views on the internet.

>> where does she get that from. >> she is the cutest ever. love it. >> thank you for sending us all that stuff we get all the time. continue to e-mail and twitter us on our social pages and that wraps up eyewitness news at noon, i'm david novarro. >> and i'm shirleen allicot. make sure you are back this afternoon for eyewitness news first at 4. have a great afternoon and don't look how beautiful it is... honey, we need to talk.

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